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Art and Queer Culture Book Launch

March 29, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

29 March, 2013, 6 – 9 pm
Co-presented by Phaidon and For Your Art

LACE, Phaidon, and For Your Art invite you to celebrate the launch of Art and Queer Culture by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer.

Spanning 125 years, Art and Queer Culture is the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which the codes and cultures of homosexuality have provided a creative resource for visual artists. Attempts to trouble the conventions of gender and sexuality, to highlight the performative aspects of identity and to oppose the tyranny of the normal are all woven into the historical fabric of homosexuality and its representation. From Oscar Wilde to Ryan Trecartin, from the molly houses of eighteenth-century London to the Harlem drag balls of the 1920s, the flamboyant refusal of social and sexual norms has fuelled the creation of queer art and life throughout the modern period.

Art and Queer Culture includes not only pictures made and displayed under the rubric of fine art but also those intended for private, underground or otherwise restricted audiences. Scrapbooks, amateur artworks, cartoons, bar murals, anonymous photographs, activist posters – all appear in its pages, as do paintings, sculptures, art photographs and video installations. Writing queer culture into the history of art means redrawing the boundaries of what counts as art as well as what counts as history. It means searching for cracks in the partition that separates ‘high’ art from ‘low’ culture and in the divide between public achievement and private life.

Please note this event will take place at For Your Art, 6020 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Click here to learn more about the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Catherine Lord is Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. She is a writer, artist and curator and has received numerous fellowships and awards for her work on cultural politics, disability, queer identities, feminism and colonialism. Her books include The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (2004) and Son Colibri, Sa Calvitie: Miss Translation (2007).

Richard Meyer is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History at Stanford University. He is the author ofOutlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (2002), and his studies in modern and contemporary art focus on the ongoing debate over sexuality and gender, its effects on modern art and visual culture, and censorship and the public sphere.

 

ABOUT THE PRESS
Phaidon has a long and distinguished history as an art book publisher. The company was founded in Vienna in 1923 by Dr. Bela Horowiz and Ludwig Goldscheider and named after “Phaedo”, Socrates’ pupil who spoke on the immortality of the soul. Their key objective was to deliver quality books at affordable prices. They were able to achieve this as pioneers of the international co-edition and with large print-runs. Their first titles were not art books, but books on literature, philosophy and history. Phaidon’s large format art books first emerged in 1936 with high-quality plates on Van Gogh, Botticelli, and the French Impressionists. These were some of the first large, sumptuously illustrated artist monographs reasonably priced for the general public.

[ …] Today Phaidon books are recognized worldwide for the highest quality of content, design, and production. They cover everything from art, architecture, photography, design, performing arts, decorative arts, contemporary culture, fashion, film, travel, cookery and children’s books. Phaidon books continue to be so innovative and beautiful that as Nigel Spivy points out in his fuller account of Phaidon’s history, “a readership is rightly disposed to buy a Phaidon book for no other reason than that Phaidon has produced it.”

Browse all of Phaidon’s publications and find out more about the press at www.phaidon.com

Can’t make the event? Pre-order your copy of the book at http://www.phaidon.com/store/art/art-and-queer-culture-9780714849355/ to be delivered by end of April 2013.

This event is part of IMPRINT, a new series of book launches, readings, and artist talks that explores the intersection of artistic and publishing practices. Ranging from art books to scholarly publications, IMPRINT emphasizes the importance of publishers, independent presses, journals, and artist projects that explore the tactile experience of art in print in the digital age.

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March 29, 2013
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For Your Art
6020 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036 United States
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